Insidious Quotes

No enemy of free government is more dangerous and none so insidious as corruption.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.

No human beings, black, yellow, or white could be quite as untruthful, as insincere, as arrogant—in short, as untrustworthy in every way—as the Russians.

I think George Bush is one of the most duplicitous presidents we've ever had.

We face a hostile ideology [Communism]—global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method.

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

'Insidious' is independent. It's like the 'Clerks' of horror films, you know?

I always think of the Joker as the ultimate bully. Nothing he says is funny except to him.

[He] has the temper of a hedgehog, the adhesiveness of a barnacle, the vanity of a peacock, the vindictiveness of a Corsican, and the duplicity of the devil.

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.

… insidious traitors

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character

The idea of being charming and really nasty at the same time is a really difficult thing to do.

If you look to the few films that have been really successful, 'Insidious,' 'Paranormal Activity,' it's all basically the old monsters.

Alzheimer's is such an insidious disease.

You have to be careful about what you do, about what you say, and that is more dangerous than what was happening with [John] McCarthy, but the technology the government now possesses is so much more insidious.

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.

Writers often have a 'drunk' that is different than anyone else's. That's why it's so insidious and so damning. First of all, because they can write when they're drinking - or they think they can. A lot of writers will tell me - and this is the latest one I've heard - you drink while you're thinking about what to write, but when you actually write, you sober up.

Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love.

In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.